Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing many aspects of how we work and live. (How many stories did you read last week about self-driving cars and job-stealing robots? Perhaps your holiday shopping involved some AI algorithms, as well.) But despite the constant flow of news, many misconceptions about AI remain.
AI doesn’t think in our sense of the word at all, Scriffignano explains. “In many ways, it’s not really intelligence. It’s regressive.”
IT leaders should make deliberate choices about what AI can and can’t do on its own. “You have to pay attention to giving AI autonomy intentionally and not by accident,”
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https://pentestmag.com/artificial-intelligence-and-cybersecurity/
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How New Technology Affects Our Consumption Of Art And Media
https://www.forbes.com/sites/julianvigo/2019/08/14/how-new-technology-affects-our-consumption-of-art-and-media/?utm_source=FBPAGE&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2563098051&utm_campaign=sprinklrForbesMainFB#2157f4076eb2
Despite the growth of AI and machine learning in the fields of insurance and business, the one sector where we are not fully exploring new technology’s possibilities is that of art and media. Sure, the potential of streaming media has been explored to a large degree with the availability of films on Netflix and Amazon, but this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Other forms of digital art have become more popularized with the internet, especially in the realm of graphic design
In terms of media exposure, the internet has given birth to an entirely new genre of media innovation
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Testing the Different Scopes of Machine Learning
https://www.ranorex.com/blog/testing-machine-learning/
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https://bdtechtalks.com/2019/07/29/machine-learning-ai-cybersecurity/
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Google “Machine Learning Fairness” Whistleblower Goes Public, says: “burden lifted off of my soul”
https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/08/14/google-machine-learning-fairness-whistleblower-goes-public-says-burden-lifted-off-of-my-soul/
Google Insider Wants More Insiders to Blow Whistle: “people have been waiting for this Google Snowden moment where somebody comes out and explains what everybody already knows to be true”
“I felt that our entire election system was going to be compromised forever, by this company that told the American public that it was not going to do any evil”
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Artificial Intelligence Has Been Using You. For Years. How Does That Feel?
https://blog.paessler.com/artificial-intelligence-has-been-using-you
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https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/a-twotrack-algorithm-to-detect-deepfake-images
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https://www.dezeen.com/2019/07/30/ewa-nowak-anti-ai-mask-protects-wearers-from-mass-surveillance/
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Speech2Face: Learning the Face Behind a Voice
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09773
Project: https://speech2face.github.io/
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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in 50 lines of code (PyTorch)
tl;dr: GANs are simpler to set up than you think
Blog by Dev Nag: https://medium.com/@devnag/generative-adversarial-networks-gans-in-50-lines-of-code-pytorch-e81b79659e3f
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3 Easy Ways to Evaluate AI Claims
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/learn-the-red-flags-of-overhyped-ai-claims
IEEE Spectrum asked experts to share their tips for how to identify AI hype in press releases, news articles, research papers, and IPO filings.
“It can be tricky, because I think the people who are out there selling the AI hype—selling this AI snake oil—are getting more sophisticated over time,” says Tim Hwang, director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative.
“AI has no well-defined meaning and many so-called AI companies are simply trying to take advantage of the buzz around that term,”
Look for Buzzwords
One red flag is what Hwang calls the “hype salad.” This means stringing together the term “AI” with many other tech buzzwords such as “blockchain” or “Internet of Things.” That doesn’t automatically disqualify the technology, but spotting a high volume of buzzwords in a post, pitch, or presentation should raise questions about what exactly the company or individual has developed.
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Mobile Facial Recognition Catches Killer After ‘Spotting’ Dead Smartphone User
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/08/23/police-catch-killer-after-facial-recognition-on-victims-phone-warns-no-signs-of-life/?utm_source=FACEBOOK&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Bonnie/#626f6e6e696
Facial recognition has been slammed in the media in recent months, but a story from southeastern China this week provides something different. According to local media reports, a killer accessed a mobile banking app on his victim’s phone in an attempt to steal money—but the facial recognition alerted when it could find no signs of life. The police were then dispatched by staff at the financial institution, and the killer was caught
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Real-Time Voice Cloning
Clone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time
GitHub, by Corentin Jemine : https://github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning
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this + deepfake videos = video evidence screwed
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Beijing is bringing AI judges to court. The move, proclaimed by China as “the first of its kind in the world”, comes from the Beijing Internet Court, which has launched an online litigation service center featuring an artificially intelligent female judge, with a body, facial expressions, voice, and actions all modeled off a living, breathing human (one of the court’s actual female judges, to be exact).
China Now Has AI-Powered Judges
https://radiichina.com/china-now-has-ai-powered-robot-judges/?fbclid=IwAR0srkxPsy_f1_FopvhKzs9UNd9TcQQq5p3XYIgJOjtlXzjH7iSIfVj56Jg
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The risks of amoral A.I.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/25/the-risks-of-amoral-a-i/?tpcc=ECFB2019
The consequences of deploying automation without considering ethics could be disastrous
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3 Easy Ways to Evaluate AI Claims
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/learn-the-red-flags-of-overhyped-ai-claims
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Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7dj9/flawed-algorithms-are-grading-millions-of-students-essays
Fooled by gibberish and highly susceptible to human bias, automated essay-scoring systems are being increasingly adopted, a Motherboard investigation has found
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How Healthcare Is Using Big Data And AI To Cure Disease
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicolemartin1/2019/08/30/how-healthcare-is-using-big-data-and-ai-to-cure-disease/?utm_source=FACEBOOK&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Jennie/#6a656e6e696
When it comes to medicine there are constant discoveries and advancements in the field. Now with the help of machine learning algorithms, personalized medicine and predictive patient outcome has taken another step towards curing diseases.
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https://interestingengineering.com/the-three-types-of-artificial-intelligence-understanding-ai
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Facebook is using the popular video game Minecraft to help train a new AI assistant that can help with a broad range of human commands.
Facebook Is Building an AI Assistant Inside Minecraft
http://on.forbes.com/6184Ef2uQ
Facebook is using the popular video game Minecraft to help train a new artificially intelligent assistant that, in the future, could help humans perform a wide range of tasks with a broad range of spoken commands.
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Luminar 4 New Feature This Fall: AI Structure
https://fstoppers.com/news/luminar-4-new-feature-fall-ai-structure-401425
the new AI Structure tool will allow photographers to add detail and structure only where it is needed. Previously, when adding structure, details, or clarity to images, photographers have been likely to get unpredictable results with very little control
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https://www.c4isrnet.com/artificial-intelligence/2019/08/31/the-pentagons-ai-center-is-poised-for-a-breakthrough/
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/28/elon-musk-computers-will-surpass-us-in-every-single-way.html
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Intel’s new AI chips can crunch data 1,000 times faster than normal ones
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613964/intels-new-ai-chips-can-crunch-data-1-000-times-faster-than-normal-ones/
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Machine Learning for Creators?
Taking the data science out of machine learning
https://blog.hackster.io/machine-learning-for-creators-d420f9e592e3
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DeepFaceLab is a tool that utilizes machine learning to replace faces in videos. Includes prebuilt ready to work standalone Windows 7,8,10 binary.
https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLab
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Experts Want to Give Control of America’s Nuclear Missiles to AI
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59n3y5/experts-want-to-give-control-of-americas-nuclear-missiles-to-ai?utm_source=mbfb
If America is attacked with a nuclear bomb, artificial intelligence would automatically fire back even if we are all dead.
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Facebook is making its own deepfakes and offering prizes for detecting them
https://tcrn.ch/2zXs8MO
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DeepFake Detection Challenge, a collaborative effort to build new tools to detect videos that have been manipulated with AI. [https://ai.facebook.com/blog/deepfake-detection-challenge](https://ai.facebook.com/blog/deepfake-detection-challenge?__xts__0=68.ARAcZqEL0LSgoeaCZKElRvsyxiJWoL_k9zN4zhmFAhEDHl1KXaPbTPc70_T6mOHzMq56cFGeUhrZQ4OxoQLQ9vz69G-EDChUBnj3BUwPsKjmLA1p67L8ghSpV36oL3g0du0WxS7vQiJHBxSVzhlqPmVpn9Knh0bqJ_QB69U2JMs3z2OHflzG8pi9ilsm2tVJcXNeJZ9yxlxLvOUbVt6nHIhB9q49BncHlOCPINJDZvQYhFwh14DMiyrJFZGl1pfAQCU3LvYBJFSMMgy7Kt-Aq643cjIJF6CPDVahbBlZo3s2FTn9W5HT1sI0KImywKCA5aKBW6OzFmLCT0V00WtY6uWJX7fHF8uOVUcKMN3vyBCeQUYIwyJw7aqToZU-yXozcevSQHcuvxyCX0FBw1SYG8MF8bMaQhiY9x2_0Xj_WP4qLLsXAskVTLuKYavf4d2aLWzxykxKeXjfqFh5DSWjuTpLjxbguR-1H6KmJAvFKqYFp2x_NkE4SYNh1Wzm3EbuqhE&__tn__=-UKH-R)
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OPINION | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Machine learning: go full stack or go home
https://sifted.eu/articles/machine-learning-full-stack/
Traditional machine learning startups building single tools have the wrong idea. Today, companies need to be full-stack to thrive.
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Industry has grabbed hold of the term AI and bent it in many ways that have nothing to do with the history of artificial intelligence—nor the work of those who practice actual AI.
Separating AI From The Nonsense
http://on.forbes.com/6189EAixv
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Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5656-hidden-technical-debt-in-machine-learning-systems
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Microsoft Uses Deep Learning For Malicious PowerShell Detection
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-uses-deep-learning-for-malicious-powershell-detection/
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An unexpected use for face recognition: tracking chimpanzees
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614260/ai-face-recognition-tracks-chimpanzees/
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Novel math could bring machine learning to the next level
https://techxplore.com/news/2019-09-math-machine.html
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Cerebras reveals world’s ‘largest computer chip’ for AI tasks
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49395577
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The Big Benchmarking Roundup
Getting started with machine learning and edge computing
https://blog.hackster.io/the-big-benchmarking-roundup-a561fbfe8719
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https://blog.hackster.io/putting-machine-learning-into-the-home-and-onto-the-internet-of-things-39cd251e6226
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https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/31/why-aws-is-building-tiny-ai-race-cars-to-teach-machine-learning/
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https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614251/an-ai-system-identified-a-potential-new-drug-in-just-46-days/
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Justin Sherman / Wired:
When Cold War analogies are misapplied to emerging technologies like AI, the debate about how such technologies should be regulated gets distorted — Opinion: Politicians and pundits’ fixation with flawed Cold War metaphors have produced overly combative policies on emerging tech.
Cold War Analogies are Warping Tech Policy
https://www.wired.com/story/cold-war-analogies-are-warping-tech-policy/
Opinion: Politicians and pundits’ fixation with flawed Cold War metaphors have produced overly combative policies on emerging tech.
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Why not??? We are doomed anyways.
Experts Want to Give Control of America’s Nuclear Missiles to AI
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59n3y5/experts-want-to-give-control-of-americas-nuclear-missiles-to-ai?utm_source=mbfb
If America is attacked with a nuclear bomb, artificial intelligence would automatically fire back even if we are all dead.
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How Much AI Expertise Do Thought Leaders and Companies Really Have?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/certified-artificial-rates-the-ai-expertise-of-thought-leaders-and-companies
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We need to assess the environmental impact of AI – both good and bad – say experts.
AI can help us fight climate change. But it has an energy problem, too
https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/ai-can-help-us-fight-climate-change-it-has-energy-problem-too.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=share
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can help us fight climate change – but it also comes at a cost to the planet. To truly benefit from the technology’s climate solutions, we also need a better understanding of AI’s growing carbon footprint, say researchers.
AI’s relevance as a climate change fighting tool comes at a time when there are increasing ethical concerns linked largely to a data-hungry form of the technology called machine learning, where computer systems analyse patterns in existing data to make predictions and decisions. Machine learning applications have raised concerns about creeping public surveillance, intentional misuse, privacy, transparency and data bias that can lead to discrimination and inequality.
It is part of a wider ethics debate in the EU about how to use AI for the benefit of human beings, the challenges that the technology poses and how best to tackle them.
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Automatic Data Provenance for Your ML Pipeline
https://blog.valohai.com/automatic-data-provenance-for-your-ml-pipeline
We all understand the importance of reproducibility of machine learning experiments. And we all understand that the basis for reproducibility is tracking every experiment, either manually in a spreadsheet or automatically through a platform such as Valohai. What you can’t track what you’ve done it’s impossible to remember what you did last week, not to mention last year. This complexity is further multiplied with every new team member that joins your company.
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Introducing quantum convolutional neural networks
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-quantum-convolutional-neural-networks.html
Machine learning techniques have so far proved to be very promising for the analysis of data in several fields, with many potential applications. However, researchers have found that applying these methods to quantum physics problems is far more challenging due to the exponential complexity of many-body systems.
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Scientists are using machine learning to unlock the mysteries of long-dead languages
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/scientists-using-machine-learning-to-unlock-oldest-languages
thanks to machine learning, researchers are deciphering the script of these lesser-known cultures.
One of ancient Mesopotamia’s most influential civilizations, the Sumerians, gave the world one of the first written languages.
modern technology has given researchers new hope of unravelling the script imprinted on the roughly 300,000 cuneiform tablets discovered to date, of which only around 10% have been translated so far.
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-portrait-art
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In this JSConf video, Charlie Gerard discuses building a simple gesture recognition system with JavaScript, Arduino and machine learning.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HvtlRMpDbnQ&feature=youtu.be